Women of the Wall

Women of the Wall
Title Women of the Wall PDF eBook
Author Phyllis Chesler
Publisher Jewish Lights Publishing
Pages 504
Release 2003
Genre Feminism
ISBN

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This passionate book documents the legendary grassroots and legal struggle of a determined group of Jewish women from Israel, the United States, and other parts of the world to win the right to pray out loud together as a group at the Western Wall.

Women in the Wall

Women in the Wall
Title Women in the Wall PDF eBook
Author Julia O'Faolain
Publisher Faber & Faber
Pages 300
Release 2011-08-18
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0571281540

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'I am hungry for your presence. I hanker for the great blaze of your glance which when you turn it on me, will burn out the husk of my body and draw my soul to you.' Julia O'Faolian's second novel, first published in 1973, offers a rich, vivid portrait of the political and religious turmoil of sixth-century Gaul, wherein we find Radegunda, wife of King Clotair having been seized by him as a prize of war. Radegunda builds a convent, a refuge for the Brides of Christ, and there becomes renowned for her austerity and mysticism. Her religion, however, is fanatical, and her quest for sainthood will serve to undermine the seeming calm of the retreat she has made. 'Vibrant and strange... [a] journey into a darker, wilder moment of history.' Sarah Dunant, Guardian

Women of the Harlem Renaissance

Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Title Women of the Harlem Renaissance PDF eBook
Author Cheryl A. Wall
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 267
Release 1995-09-22
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0253114985

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"Wall's writing is lively and exuberant. She passes her enthusiasm for these writers' works on to the reader. She captures the mood of the times and follows through with the writers' evolution -- sometimes to success, other times to isolation.... Women of the Harlem Renaissance is a rare blend of thorough academic research with writing that anyone can appreciate." -- Jason Zappe, Copley News Service "By connecting the women to one another, to the cultural movement in which they worked, and to other early 20th-century women writers, Wall deftly defines their place in American literature. Her biographical and literary analysis surpasses others by following up on diverse careers that often ended far past the end of the movement. Highly recommended... "Â -- Library Journal "Wall offers a wealth of information and insight on their work, lives and interaction with other writers... strong critiques... " -- Publishers Weekly The lives and works of women artists in the Harlem Renaissance -- Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Smith, and others. Their achievements reflect the struggle of a generation of literary women to depict the lives of Black people, especially Black women, honestly and artfully.

Women at the Wall

Women at the Wall
Title Women at the Wall PDF eBook
Author Laura T. Fishman
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 358
Release 1990-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780791400586

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Women at the Wall is the first ethnographic study of how the arrest, trial, imprisonment, and release of male criminals affects their families, particularly their wives. It relies on first-person accounts by prisoners' wives, providing details about the changing texture of their marital relationships and the accompanying stigmatization. From this book we learn about the effects of enforced spousal separation, and the control husbands maintain even during incarceration. We also learn that wives devise ingenious interpretations and explanations regarding their husbands' criminality, and how they attempt to establish stable, conventional lives for themselves while supporting their husbands through the various stages of the criminal justice system. These women reveal not only their hardships and losses, but also their resourcefulness in coping with their husbands' criminality, their families and friends, and the prison system itself.

Nails in the Wall

Nails in the Wall
Title Nails in the Wall PDF eBook
Author Amy Leonard
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 233
Release 2005-07-29
Genre History
ISBN 0226472574

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Israeli Feminism Liberating Judaism

Israeli Feminism Liberating Judaism
Title Israeli Feminism Liberating Judaism PDF eBook
Author Bonna Devora Haberman
Publisher Lexington Books
Pages 263
Release 2012-07-16
Genre Religion
ISBN 0739167863

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This engaging feminist approach to Judaism blends the interpretation of primary Jewish sources with contemporary social change. Bonna Devora Haberman shares her first-hand account of the “Women of the Wall” and a feminist approach to traditional Judaism, while interacting with ancient Jewish texts. In a rich network of sources, seaming together scholarship with activism, Haberman analyzes the sacred, with attention to power and gender. While much religious and national culture focuses on death and sacrifice, Haberman proposes an alternative model for a Jewish theology of liberation: birth—no less universal than death. Life-giving rather than life-taking is the nucleus of this work, reformulating performances of gender in a realm of exaggerated sexual difference. Using her experiences with the “Women of the Wall” movement interwoven in scripture, Haberman contributes toward liberating religious culture from its gender oppressions, and rendering religion a liberating force in society.

Magical World

Magical World
Title Magical World PDF eBook
Author Rabbi Sara Brandes
Publisher
Pages 128
Release 1978-07-10
Genre
ISBN 9780996460903

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Magical World is a collection of essays and poems, interwoven with the personal story of a mystic. Rabbi Sara Brandes draws from the ancient wisdom of Jewish tradition to craft a life of meaning in this magical world of ours.